images

Great Britain and northern France by night - 2012

by

Nasa/Novapix

Reference

t-eufra-00052

Date

2016-08-02

The image shows London and the southern half of Great Britain as it appeared on the night of March 27, 2012.
The image was acquired by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on Suomi NPP, which includes a “day-night band” similar to images collected by the Operational Linescan System (OLS) flown on U.S. Defense Meterological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites.